And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
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Interpretation
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them.
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This thought runs through Genesis 44:19-23.